skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"get to dictate the lives of hundreds of millions of democratic citizens"

You are singling out "democratic citizens" as if it is some better kind of people.

Your "democratic citizens" cheered for the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 and
reelected Bush even though it had become clear by that time that the "justification" for the invasion was fake.

Not impeaching Bush in 2003 was stupid, reelecting him was callous.
Al Jazeera claims this is direct retaliation for their 7 Oct documentary which is a very thorough analysis of some of the more extreme claims made by the IDF about what happened that day. Ironically, this documentary uses the Israeli government's own information as its initial primary source (including the official record of who died that day).

The documentary can be viewed in full on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY
I used to live in North Yorkshire until I moved away to start a job in mainland Europe.

When I moved I tried to fill in the form on their website to indicate that I wouldn't be paying the council tax on the house I used to live in anymore. Weirdly I couldn't make the form work, it broke with weird errors about timing out. After some headscratching I decided (on a whim) to change my computer's timezone back to GMT and hilariously the form started working perfectly.

Sadly I couldn't finish filling in the form, because it required a postcode for my new address, and would ONLY accept postcodes which matched the UK format (which my new address, in a different country obviously didn't match).

You shouldn't be surprised about any IT insanity from North Yorkshire Council, they are impressively incompetent.
Thanks!

I have a friend that used to work for a company called “SecurityScorecard.”

Different beast, though. I think the idea was similar.
I think it would make a lot of sense to charge insurance companies for the installation of a bollard whenever there's an instance of a driver mounting a sidewalk.
It isn't programmable but neither is an early adding machine. I don't see a problem with either being in a computer museum.
What about all the misleading news (i.e., positive spin) in the Western world's "free press" that lead to many believing that Ukraine had a chance for a counter offensive (against even basic military thinking and logic). Didn't that lead to unnecessary suffering and deaths during war time (vs say an alternative, beefing up defense lines)?

That's just a random recent example. Another older one is the the media going nuts over "WMDs", leading to an unnecessary US invasion and millions of deaths. My point being is that even free press can spread bad ideas and narratives - in fact, it frequently does. And those ideas should be able to be challenged, at any time, by any source.
It hasn't "sailed" as long as they want to communicate with non-machine-learning people.
Updated in 2022, but I don't see anything on <Suspense> for example. That doesn't necessarily mean the info is now wrong, but it's definitely not complete anymore.
How "and then what?" – levels up your decision making skill
We live in a broken world, there are no perfect solutions. But I would argue that staying alive comes as a primary priority.
Due to irregular spreading of the ink when printing, the shapes on the page are not perfect representations of the type shape, so the true shape of the metal form has to be inferred from comparing multiple printed samples.

There are digital reproductions of old typefaces that try to reproduce the actual weight on the page, but they seem to be not very popular with modern designers unless they are going for a deliberately archaic look.
> You pronounce both of your examples with two S phonemes at the end.

Um... what? Pronouncing a possessive suffix with /səs/ isn't valid anywhere. The only possibility is /səz/. Same goes for the plural suffix.
Eh even if you secure the X11 API itself, the Xorg server still is a 33 year old (!) c codebase.
> a pro-Palestinian activist stood in front of me on Columbia University’s campus with a sign that read "by any means necessary" ... its message was so painful and disturbing that after that moment, I left New York for a few days.

Imagine then how he would feel if he were a Palestinian and were subjected to daily violence from the Israeli army and settlers, or worse, to a six months bombing campaign that left an entire region destroyed and 34k people dead under the rubble.

So much for "leaving New York for a few days".
Though the TTY system is clearly historical accident: Hacks piled on hacks on early Unix system to make actual teletypes work, then enshrined in POSIX and need for compatibilities sake.

C++ always seems to me pretty absurd just because C++ people don't seem to know better ways, and seem to think to much about squeezing out the least little bit of performance instead of aiming for simple abstractions that are performant enough. Also, the last 40 years of programming language development seems to be unknown to them, or at least doesn't influence their decisions, or if they pick up a new idea, it's implemented in the most possible awkward way (because, again, performance).
Yeah, also it takes 3 years to build. I predict that there will be so much more lithium-ion batteries deployed by the time this is finished that it will change the economics of operating it.
Is italy at war? I must have missed the memo.
Cool, why didn't you say the mestre was redundant? Sounds like we have similar interests; if you want to chat, feel free to drop by anytime.

Mounted bullfighting as currently practised is unfortunately an asymmetric game: the bull is a rank amateur[0], but the cavaleiro tauromaquico is an experienced professional (and furthermore has remounts). I always felt a better way to preserve the art —and it is an art!— of rejoneo would be to play a symmetric game: matching mounted pairs against each other[1].

As for the bull, retiring from the match might be sad for the toristas[2], and I guess if you're going to wind up on a plate anyway it might be going out in style, but I'm pretty sure the bulls themselves might argue they have less stressful ways to spend their days.

[0] Goya may beg to differ with me on this point.

[1] If you'd like to try this, please don't surprise me: do it properly and have your second get in touch with mine :-)

[2] I am a torista myself, because we are all the toro:

- we can't win
- we can't break even
- we can't even quit the game

so the best we can hope for is keep our heads high and an obol in the pocket:

It's the white in his knuckles
The gold in his buckle
I think the big problem with reading is that it's much slower compared to other media.

Add in the fact that you can also only read for so long before your eyes get tired and then people just naturally veer away from it.
It's amazing how shallow is the "Americanized" DEI perspective when you look at your country of origin and its neighbors. Former Yugoslavia is, comparatively, not very large, but it contains a whole lot of very diverse groups, sometimes so that the "melting pot" occasionally starts throwing angry sparks around. But to them, you're all just... "white". And thus your life experience must be also "white" and "privileged", right? Right?

Sometimes I really want to take all those privileged campus kids and their little twitter accounts and throw them into a Total Perspective Vortex.
what a starange statement about the counterattack, as if there was a definite knowledge about the future and the Western propaganda suppressed it.

They attempted at taking back their own lands and they failed. The same people claiming to know the future also used to claim that Russia would not attack and later that Ukraine will fall in matter of days.

Maybe just stop listening to fortune tellers.
Ah yes the "we must kill them, to stay alive" narrative. It has never been abused in the whole history of mankind.
You can put the root of the problem whenever you want in the last thousand years.
Your conspiracy theory can co-exist with mine :) I believe multiple parties want TikTok banned for their own reasons.

However I am hearing more and more people mention TikTok and Israel together inside congressional circles than mentions of "TikTok and China". Here is an example: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
The Street of Saint Mary--that's what they should write instead.
Sounds a lot like how web standards work!
I also can't help thinking of the "Melanie speaks" episode of 99% invisible [1].

Of course this only works for your "online persona", but still the idea of impacting how you are perceived by working on your voice... is a thing.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/melanie-speaks/
It’s not at war, that’s why I don’t support such a thing.
It's not unlikely that the Llama 3 405B that's still training will outperform the best OpenAI model of today.

The Llama 3 70B model in English already beats all models from Google, from Anthropic and it's only bested by the last GPT4 version. (Based on the Open LLM Arena results)
NSA's got to keep developing Ghidra
"Smell" is the heuristic which, in practice, led to hiring discrimination against African Americans in the eighties -- in the period where overt discrimination was no longer kosher, but before implicit bias was widely recognized and people tried to compensate for it.

There are hundreds of minute differences in behavior, communication style, dress, body language, etc. between middle-upper class white communities and low-income African communities which had no impact on job performance, but massive impact on "smell."

That's a major part of the reason there was such a disconnect between African Americans and white Americans about the level of racism in America.

It continues to impact many smaller minority groups, which don't quite fit liberal / census DEI slots, to an extreme level.

It also almost entirely cuts across the red/blue line in many communities, leading to increased political segregation and polarization.

If you read many texts, they will tell you everyone is racist. Congrats! You've just learned one of the ways how you're a racist.
Is this a free alternative for Audio Hijack / Loopback?
> Does it make them harder to watch here? No.

Of course it does? Most people are not going to go out of their way for it unless they have specific reasons to do so. What's on/available by default matters. (Ask any UX specialist.)
I've not seen the movie, but Turing was engaged briefly to Joan Clark, a fellow cryptanalyst, and they were close friends. She knew about his homosexuality though so it would have been literally a marriage of convenience, probably not uncommon at that time.
It seems easy to prevent a disease found on the ISS from infecting deep space missions; just don't link the two up. Maybe those other missions will develop their own strains in time, but with fewer people coming and leaving it should be easier to keep the spacecraft clean and healthy by starting out that way. Also the ISS has been occupied for 23 years with this issue only becoming apparent recently, so that seems like a pretty good run.
Obviously Rust has some features, like async, that are not needed for 'C with safety'.

But in my experience you need most of the other features. So any 'C with safety' will have a lot of the complexity of Rust. Though of course the syntax and defaults may be different.

At some point it becomes very subjective. Does a language need a UTF-8 string type, or is an array of 8-bit characters enough?

The research question would be, what is a minimal subset of Rust that still allows for programs that are commonly written in C to be easily written in this subset.

Some things, like the tuple type, or 'if let' can be removed, but is it still convenient to write programs without them? Closures are a bit tricky to see if they can be removed.

In any case, C struck a very good balance between being small and powerful. In my opinion Rust strikes a similar balance. Rust is a lot bigger, but it gives powerful tools to write reliable code.
Dunedin's not a city, it's a University.
Well, the main reason why Wayland even exists is, that the X11 maintainers got fed up with a design from a time when graphics cards were not even a thing yet and decades of patchwork. They wanted to move on to something that has way less technical debt. Sure, X11 won't go away anytime soon, but finding people who actually want to work and maintain that codebase will be more than a little difficult.
> In fact I don’t think your average developer should need to understand syscalls to write applications.

I'm not saying they should never use a wrapper and must use opcodes. I'm saying they should understand the difference between a function call and a system call.

> GNU is a convention and it’s only officially supported in GNU/Linux

Which is where 99.999% of go software runs, coincidentally.

> Lastly, I’m not sure why you singled out Go

Because the problems I listed usually happen to me only if the command is implemented in go. And since go in itself doesn't have any such limitations, it must be something with the libraries, and of course with people who write those libraries.
What are you even talking about? Of course those attacked must kill the attackers to stay alive.
I think one should allow others to look at the entirety of the thread started by bitwize, where they claim:

> ...the BSDs will really end up dying,...

That wasn't very figurative, even if "dead in the water" was. For all it's worth, bitwize might have been using that figure of speech inappropriately when they really meant "dead".

All this to say that even as an outside observer, one can read exactly the same things differently, so perhaps we should all get off our high horses and start riding ponies or bicycles (what? :)) — I mean, back to the discussion at hand.
This doesn't look intentional at all, because this is basically like how 90% of memory disclosure bugs look
Very constructive comment, thanks you!

So, me liking the AppStore checks as an extra security measure leads to you suggesting people should be welded into their homes. That is totally sane and absolutely not childish.
This does all seem true and you make a good point.

How do you feel about all the bollards that are designed to stop a crashing vehicles from injuring or killing pedestrians?
Not to be polemic but... Another floating windows manager ?

It's about time to came back to free tiling (like Emacs/EXWM where there is no rigid "tiling model"), since we no not need to keep moving windows, we do not need icons covered by any windows, overlapping windows and so on.

Most of the time we work on a single maximized application, otherwise we have some windows side-by-side to see both and so on. Use case for floating tend to be zero. Similar use case for most launchers and menus tend to be zero, most of the UIs have choose search&narrow over time, from "dashes" to Android preference passing though desktop quick-launchers witch are in the end a specialized CLI.

The widget model, the floating windows model is failed and proved to be even if too many still use it. The DocUIs are the past (SUNWs anyone? Postscript UIs?) and the present and the foreseeable future...

The DE as a tool proved to be next to useless, we use applications and need integration non desktop prove to been able to offer beyond very basic cut&paste and some protocols supported only by few apps and essentially irrelevant.
Metaverse was an obvious failure, but Quest is a huge success in the VR/AR market. They managed to create high quality products without it becoming overpriced novelty items (eg Valve Index, Vive, Apple Vision), while being an open ecosystem that supports OpenXR and sideloading.
This is awesome. Very futuristic
It's really amazing that they are releasing the results of all of that compute (the Llama models). Much more efficient and environmentally friendly than keeping things closed like Google or OpenAI!
A country at war has no moral or legal obligation to publish its enemy’s propaganda. This should be very obvious.

And yes RT was always complete shite for gullible morons, though it is rather beside the point in this case actually. The British government had no moral obligation on free speech grounds to allow the spread of nazi propaganda in the United Kingdom during WW2, either. Again, obvious stuff.
Double whoosh then I guess.
Not everybody understands English 100%.

The guy in the old west who drew his gun and said “them’s fightin’ words?” He probably didn’t enough English to understand the whole sentence but picked out a few words which meant to him “fight.”
In fact, a series of Western media including the BBC, Reuters, CNN, etc. all have offices in China.... and you can also easily access Western media websites through VPN and other methods which are uncensored
Eh, while I have no special insight into why Starbucks might have had a poor quarter, none of this (in TFA) is new.

As a moderate 'coffee person', Starbucks has always been somewhere between convenience and last resort. It has always sold an image, rather than an excellent product. Its practice of widening its offerings with weird and wonderful concoctions that bear little resemblance to coffee itself has been around as long as I can remember Starbucks existing as a presence in the high street. And frankly, I'm minded to be more forgiving of the derided 'Oleato' drinks - at least they're coffee-focussed, and novel enough to be interesting.

Also, the headline of the article is flat wrong: while lots of people aren't serious about coffee, it's possible to be more serious about coffee than ever before - very serious indeed.

If you want really good coffee in a reasonably-sized city, don't go to a chain. (Although I think most people that care, knew this already.). Instead, download one of the various coffee-shop-listing-and-reviewing apps out there, or alternatively (in a pinch) add the phrase "third wave" to your search on Google Maps - it's not guaranteed, but is usually a good starting point.
RE "...f it was that profitable then it would be cheaper? That doesn't even remotely make sense in the most superficial ways. I don't even understand how you'd think it does..."

It make sense , because more people will build rental accommodation. ( They will certainly not do it if it is not profitable. ) If more homes are built, the vacancy rate will slowly rise back to around 3% ( A 3 % vacancy rate is inferred to be a far number between tenants and landlords ) Rental rates have only been able to rise so much because there is a massive housing shortage - present vacancy rate is 0.9% in my area. At 09% Tenants have just about NO choice - I do not know about your area, there are lots of influences I do not know about.
what would be the advantage over Fedora?
I am assuming that there is vastly less to this than this particular cluster of publications, and too many of the commenters here, are getting themselves worked up about.
Linux is 33 years old as well. Let's stop using it to be secure?
> Early Linux was exactly like this, too. I remember running Red Hat Linux 4.2 on my SPARCstation and having kernel panics right, left and centre. Several a day, every day.

No, not exactly like this. Even early versions of Linux used separate address spaces for (each) user process and system memory (like all, but the earliest Unix systems), preventing unprivileged user space processes to clobber system memory. A wayward pointer in an unprivileged application is strictly speaking undefined behavior, but on Unix systems typically causes a segmentation fault signal (by default terminating the offending application), not a crash of the whole system.

That doesn't mean that there were no bugs in the kernel and crashes resulting from those, but even already mid-nineties, Linux, while perhaps not yet comparable with the likes of Solaris and Interactive Unix, wasn't any worse than SCO Unix and much more stable than the 16bit offerings from MS. Linux kernel crashes were rare (not as rare as today, thanks to continuous effort of hundreds of contributors and the prioritizing of the fixing of regressions), more often however users experienced out-of-memory situations, which before the addition of the oom-killer could effectively freeze a Linux system for a long time or even indefinitely. Also the X11-server or rather some graphics card driver (part of the X11 server then) wasn't quite of the same quality and when it crashed, terminated the user's session (all of the user's application started during that session). I.o.w., used as a small server, Linux was reasonable stable early on, used as a GUI desktop system not so much.
Suppose we are driving a turbine.

Does having an increase in the density of gas present an advantage over having a higher pressure delta by dumping to ambient for a given volume of compressed-gas storage?

Why would I want one tank at "high" pressure, and another tank at "higher" pressure, when I could just have one tank of "higher" pressure to begin with? Or, better: Two tanks of "higher" pressure in even less space than one of "high" and one of "higher" pressure?

(If the answer is "Because turbines work better with higher densities," then: Do they work more-betterer-enough to make up for the size and complexity?)
I don't believe it modifies the accent. I noticed I could hear his asian accent coming through every character, so it seems to just modify the voice but not the intonation
6 hours of robotic Siri-like voice speech? Torture.

It's a shame because I presume if it's recommended despite that it must be insightful.
I am currently using identifiers that encode the source and type in them. Mainly did it to make sure various backoffice ID-s never overlap, but added type since it is sometimes useful to identify object type just by looking at ID. This article is a bit discouragong but I have seen this also work well in practice so I guess we shall see how it works out. In any case the problems mentioned are unicorn++ problems and I would be happy if we need to tackle them :)
> I'm forced to use a Macbook for work, but would never use it if given the choice. MacOS is for people that value style over substance and non-technical people, just like everything else Apple.

You’re obviously free to prefer whatever platform you please for whatever personal reasons you please, but the conclusion that macOS is for non-technical people is insanely ignorant.
There are two things wrong with this argument. One, it implies that there isn't a better way to deal with an such a malicious organization. And two, it doesn't acknowledge how such a ban creates an obvious opening for abuse.

Holding up the classic Western ideals of Democracy and Freedom is hard because it is much deeper than simply giving people the freedom to access all information so they can form their own opinions. It also requires that these people are educated and trained to be competent critical thinkers and be able to intelligently form their own opinions. It holds its citizens and the government to high standards and will collapse if these standards aren't met. Accordingly, better education and trust in citizens is the better solution, not banning.

As for the obvious opening for abuse, it doesn't have to be said that every system will eventually be maximally exploited, and creating this opening for exploitation will eventually be exploited as well. It is just a matter of time...

Another poor but useful analogy is fast food. Banning bad media is like consuming fast food. It is quick and easy, and "satisfies" the goal within some basic parameters, but it really does more harm than good in the long term.
Of course. If you were running an evil open-source company, you would favor "solutions" that generates demand for the services you sell (training, tech support contracts,...) while maintaining the belief that all this is necessary in "modern" IT.

I think it's Rich Hickey who links in his one of his talks complexity with entanglement through etymology. This entanglement is sometimes also there to bind the customer. Although more often the "never attribute to malice..." rule is at work, as it's just easier, cheaper, etc... to let the complexity grow.